Llandinam

"LLANDINAM (LLAN-DINAM), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of LLANIDLOES, county of MONTGOMERY, NORTH WALES, 6 1/2 miles (E. N. E.) from Llanidloes, on the road from Newtown to Aberystwith, containing 1015 inhabitants. This parish is bounded on the south-west by the Llandinam mountain, which forms also a boundary between the counties of Montgomery and Radnor, and, rising to the height of one thousand eight hundred feet above the level of the sea, ... The church, dedicated to St. Llonio, a saint of the sixth century, is an ancient structure, ..." [A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833]

Jones, J Graham. The Peacemonger: David Davies, the first Baron Davies of Llandinam (1880-1944). Journal of Liberal Democrat History, 29 (Winter 2000 / 2001), 16-23. Memento of the second reunion of the 14th (Service) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers who sailed to France on December 1st, 1915 held at Llandinam from 30th July to 4th August, 1937. 1937. 42p

Memoir and sermons of the late Rev. David Lloyd Jones, M.A., Llandinam. Wrexham : Hughes and Son, 1912. 360p

Williams, Gwyn A. Architect of empire : Gwyn A. Williams charts the astonishing rise and fall of nineteenth-century imperial Wales with the help of a new biography by Herbert Williams of the Welsh entrepreneur, David Davies of Llandinam. New Welsh Review 5/2 (1992), p. 42-5

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

As a guide only, the principal extant parochial church records for this parish span the dates shown below (as detailed in Parish Registers of Wales, NLW 2000) but exact current holdings should be confirmed with the individual Archives;

David Davies of Llandinam Papers 1836-1907 "David Davies (1818-1890), industrialist and MP. He was born at Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, the eldest of nine children of David and Elizabeth Davies..................."

Morgan, Richard, of Llandinam, will [1848] "Richard Morgan (d. [1848]) of Aberborthin, Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, was a blacksmith; he owned property in Llandinam and a farm called Wern in Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire"

Crewe Read (BRA 1983) deeds "Deeds and documents, 1870-1907, concerning the estates of the Crewe-Read family of Llandinam Hall, Montgomeryshire"

Beadnell Estate deeds and papers "Deeds and papers relating to Treflogau, Bryn-yr-hesglyn, Lluest Peter and other properties in the parish of Llandinam, 1624-1906.........."

British Records Association Montgomeryshire Records "Deeds and related documents of the Davies family of Newtown relating to Perthygwibedin Farm, Llandinam, and other Montgomeryshire property, 1774-1828 ...................."

Carnedd, Montgomeryshire, lease "Lease, 1657, relating to properties in the lordship of Carnedd in [?Llandinam], Montgomeryshire"

Llandinam Board School [group picture] built in 1884, a gift from David Davies. Situated on the site of the old Calvinistic Methodist Chapel - on the People's Collection Wales site

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